As a researcher, (and also since I did nto have the luxury of learning programming in college, but rather have to teach myself from the past year or so), I do study others' code and I maintain a notebook (digital) wherein I copy and keep interesting snippets of code from various repos online, that could be later modified and re-used later in my own code.

It is not always possible to even remember where I got that snippet from since in nearly all the cases it would be HEAVILY modified to suit the work at hand.

Since Mr Exodia decided to make such a huge fuss over this tool that I created within a few minutes to suit just a certain specific purpose, I went back and tried to see what he seemed to be unhappy about.

ANALYSIS:

Apparently, he seems to be unhappy about the snippet that was used in my tool, to run a command in a CMD shell without actually showing the black CMD window to the user (for asethetics). As he said, what I used was quite inefficient.
But hey, users are going to run my tool for a maximum of 30 seconds, to enable and disable the Windows Update. So I did not care about efficency so much.

Secondly, as he said, and also as I mentioned in thread about the distro, Powershell had been removed from the distro and hence I needed to run the commands without using PS. SO obviously, all the other code was different. And since there is no PS in my distro, I could not use the existing tool.
That is all.

Therefore NO mystery and the tool was NOT created to "steal" credit from anyone, as Mr Exodia's posts seem to imply. I only needed to create the tool as I wanted something that would not need POWERSHELL to run !

I am STILL waiting to see if Mr Exodia would give his permission for me to contact PAYPAL so that JUST AS HE HAD made my chat public, I also can make HIS details public.

Just a quick note : PAYPAL would not only FREEZE the existing funds, but also would not do any business with anyone who PUBLICLY purports to have earned money (and is still) earning money by cracking commercial protectors and aps

I chose to publish the whole conversation because I think it gives a more nuanced picture than your screaming CAPS and red fonts, which are just a smokescreen trying to get the conversation away from the part where your code is strikingly similar to someone else's.

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Anyway YOU know very well that we stopped interacting ONLY after you felt snubbed a couple of times on Stack Exchange and other places when people voted for and prefrred my answers over yours. I do not have time (unlike you) to archive everything and post it here. You can do a search there yourself if you're interested, please.

Could you remind me which Stack Exchange answers it were that I'm upset about? My goal is to help people, if you helped them better, props to you

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YOU have been investigated (not as Mr Exodia of course, but as Duncan Ogilvie) for FRAUD at least THREE TIMES in the last 8 months, by PAYPAL ( I am not even countingthe other financial institutions).
Why are you silent about that ?

Also could you also remind me of the fraud I committed (see this as full permission)? I'm getting pretty scared of prison at this point, just like the TSRh members as can be found on your website https://tsrhblog.wordpress.com

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One Warning to others using the Mr Exodia's SLACK Channel for chat:

I cannot see private conversation of others in slack obviously, this was my personal conversation.

This is obviously getting ridiculous, just take it down a notch man. Nobody in their right mind would use PayPal for anything other than paying securely with their credit card. But feel free to report whatever nonsense you like.

It is disappointing to see our nice friends and talented members are fighting against each other every other week !
I believe no professional in the world works for free, or there is no profession at all !!! .... if there is no benefit, no-one will remain...
when you see no one is saying "Thanks" to your posts .... it means no one is happy with your post ....
I am deeply apologizing both of you and all other members for my post
there is much to write, ... I hope a moderator will clean this thread....

Someone who posts the ENTIRE andPRIVATE conversation databasewithout permission of the other party on a PUBLIC THREAD is just not fit to be a moderator at all.

I am sure that anyone who values their privacy at all will agree with me.

Secondly, the PROPER way for mrexodia to deal with this would have been to POLITELY ask in a single sentence whether I'd used the code in the tool from somewhere else.

Then I would have answered in a polite manner.

There was NO NEED to spend hours digging in my github repo containing over a thousand repos [EDIT :Let me correct that - its actually 1800 Repos when I just checked).
Then devirtualize the tool.
Then even make a ZIPPYSHARE ARCHIVE (LOL) as if I was someone who would delete the repos in a hurry and then make a post as if he had caught a great wrongdoing.

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Nobody in their right mind would use PayPal for anything other than paying securely with their credit card. But feel free to report whatever nonsense you like.

Then maybe you are not in your right mind
You DO receive a lot of your funds through paypal and many a time they kept it on hold for ages.
Same for your CrowdFunding monies

Yes, I will keep my word since you said you gave me "full permission".

My job should be damn easy since you PUBLICLY wrote here that you got PAID for cracking commercial apps and also paid "relevant" taxes on that money

@copyleft:
I am STUNNED that a MODERATOR of this forum can STOOP to this level.
As I said above, the PROPER way for him would have been to ask in a SINGLE sentence. And I would have answered politely.
Please do not say fighting against "each other".
It was the MODERATOR who decided to start a fight with that accusatory and arrogant post of his.
Also, I am sorry but I share all my stuff here for FREE. There ARE some people who do share stuff for FREE. I am one of them.

All in all, mrexodia's initial post clearly reeks of JEALOUSY towards me. Otherwise there wouldbe NO need for such accusatory remarks.

A note regarding my use of red fonts.
When readers (esp on mobiles) encounter a wall of text, they just skim over. The RED TEXT is only to draw their eyes to the most important facts.
No smoke screen or whatever.

HI all
allow me my friends to interrupt this conversation which will not be acceptable for our community,and which will guide us to lose a professionals guys for just misunderstanding.
but here I have a small reproach on our friend TechLord , my friend even could be that mr.exodia has been mistake in some points (and he Apologize in some steps) , but using Threatening language "is someone who not only cracks commercial apps and earns money but also PAYS "relevant" taxes on the ILEGAL money so earned." is not a good way from a professional guy like you TechLord.
here we are a friends we are support each other, so no need to go in wrong path.
I hope nobody understand from what I write that I Biased to someone.
from me I like both and support them too,and we don't want to lose each of them.
so I hope from both to accept my decision to close and remove this Post, and i hope from them to forget it and begin again as this not happen.
BR